MRS Issues with new Software

All I can say is that with a wired network I use MRS every day between 2 Premieres and it has been flawless for me before and after this latest software update. Best feature added by TiVo in many, many years. MRS requires a stable network without temporary dropouts or high packet losses that can plague wireless networks.

All I can say is that with a wired network I use MRS every day between 2 Premieres and it has been flawless for me before and after this latest software update. Best feature added by TiVo in many, many years. MRS requires a stable network without temporary dropouts or high packet losses that can plague wireless networks.

I'm a 20 year vet of IT and for half of that a network engineer creating transcontinental LANs. Believe me when I tell you my LAN has no pl or dropouts. It easily triples tivos transfer capability. Steadily. I know because I monitor it.

Additionall let's just think Occam's Razor here. TiVo introduced streaming when a network was in place. It streamed easily. TiVo released a software update and that same day it started to fail to stream. Transfer throughput on non flagged content is maxed. People with wired networks have this issue.

It's obvious TiVo screwed it. Like they do every time they force feed their mandatory beta upgrades. Clearly they have an extremely limited beta pool either in expertise or size, perhaps both.

Can anyone really recommend a TiVo premiere with cable card and tuning adaptor to a person who just wants to watch tv?

Oh and just for kicks they advertise to you on top of your monthly charges.

It's just shocking they still have a user base. When Mrv or central dvr hits all major cable....TiVo is going to be out of business. The only good thing they have is customer service.....service not support. Support people are never told anything but they sure are nice.

1 Premiere and 2 Elite's. Mostly wired network with 1 on new 500mbs Powerline. One of the units keeps disappearing from the available MRS list. On reboot it shows back up for 2 or 3 days and disappears again. Streaming works great though. Love it when the devices are there.

I emailed you all my info last week. This has been an on-going streaming problem since this update. I've found if I reboot either one of my Premiere TiVo's I can stream for a while before the error returns. Over the weekend I just got into a routine of rebooting my Living Room TiVo if I knew I'd want to stream something from the Bedroom TiVo. Obviously this is not the best scenario or user experience but for the moment it's how I'm getting by.

I had posted a while back that this was a VERY infrequent occurrence for me.

Well, since the update, it happens pretty much every time I'm streaming - at least once per show. Only one time did it take me a couple of times to try and continue watching.

But it IS happening a LOT more than it was before the update. Before it was maybe one in 10 shows (I was MRSing a lot) and now it's pretty much at least once per show.

I have a pretty steady, wireless, network, FWIW.

It would be pretty impossible for me to wire everything together in my house but I don't think that should be necessary since it was working fine before. Well, I could possibly wire the two Tivos together. Can that be done to create wired without wiring to my router also? I have a Cat5 cable under my house from when I had my two Series 2 machines wired together for MRV. I don't know what all is involved in that.

V68 error here as well. Rebooted both Tivos and my router. Same thing.

--*Rob

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Before the update, I could stream without issues most of the time (one of my PXL is wireless). Since the update was applied to both of my PXLs, I have not been able to stream once. I usually stream from wireless unit to wired unit. I can get the remote menu to show me what shows are available but when I hit the final play confirmation, I get a complaint about the network not working. So, yesterday I tried to stream in the reverse direction for me (wired to wireless) and this time I saw this V68 error I had not seen before... Nothing in the update information I have seen indicates that changes were made to streaming, so I don't get it.

Note: My network (router, router software, etc...) has not changed at all. The only difference appears to be the new update.